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Today, when he heard that there was an elephant team attacking the city, Ling Zhiqing left the Zheng main camp with a relatively comfortable environment and rushed over. Speaking of which, Ling Zhiqing still had the impression in his mind that the elephant team should be the same shock force as the horse team, so he was really full of curiosity about how the cavalry would attack the castle.

By the time Ling Zhiqing arrived, the elephant team had already been put into battle. Lord Zheng used a total of 500 elephants in this battle, more than half of which were load-bearing female elephants, and less than 200 war elephants could charge into battle. Of course, there is limited space for a fortress to move around, and there are not enough 200 elephants to go into battle together, so there are only about 30 elephants dispatched this time.

The figures of these war elephants were more than a foot tall, coupled with their long fangs, powerful proboscis and manic roar, in the eyes of Ling Zhiqing, who had never seen this scene, they were as terrifying as prehistoric monsters.

Looking at it, Ling Zhiqing asked the interpreter, "Why do you want to brush the yellow mud on the elephant?" ”

This is not a secret in Indochina countries such as Annam, so the interpreter quickly replied: "The elephant skin is already thick, and if it is brushed with yellow mud, it can better resist the bows and arrows fired by the enemy." ”

"Then why don't you wrap a vest-like armor or rattan armor around your body?"

"Armor elephants? I don't think I've ever heard of it. The interpreter replied with some strange feelings. But in the past, it was wrapped in rattan armor, but now with firecrackers and artillery, no amount of rattan armor can be blocked, so it simply doesn't catch it. ”

"I see." Ling Zhiqing nodded, indicating that he understood, but this was also because the rattan armor was no longer enough to offset the power of the gunpowder weapon, as for why he didn't put on an iron armor for the elephant, Ling Zhiqing estimated that it was either too heavy or too expensive. "I understand." As he spoke, the soldiers with guns, bows, and guns climbed into the basket on the elephant's back, which was very simple and had no protection at all, which was very different from the throne on the elephant used by Lord Zheng. "Ah," Ling Zhiqing suddenly exclaimed. "How come there are still cannons?"

The interpreter smiled proudly: "This is the elephant cannon that I have carefully designed. ”

But before the interpreter's smile could be retracted, he heard Ling Zhiqing continue to exclaim: "This, can this be accurate?" ”

The interpreter's smile suddenly froze on his face, yes, most of the elephant cannons are terrifying, in fact, they don't have much power, and even in order to prevent the elephant from being frightened by the sound and light of the cannon, for this reason, the elephant's eyes must be blindfolded and the elephant's ears pierced, only by relying on the tacit understanding between the elephant and the elephant slave can be driven like an arm.

Fortunately, Ling Zhiqing did not dwell on the strange trick of setting up cannons on the elephant's body, and saw that in his sight, the elephant team had begun to charge slowly. In fact, in addition to the warriors and soldiers on the elephant, there are more than a dozen guards around the elephant, and these people are mainly guarding against the opponent's attack on the elephant's lower abdomen, but since the blindfolded elephant only knows how to advance, they are far more concerned about preventing the elephant from stampede than guarding against the opponent's attack.

As the elephant approached, Nguyen Truong Fortress began to shoot. The roar instantly filled the entire wilderness, and from time to time shells fell around the elephants, but the land of Annam in the rainy season was relatively muddy and slippery, so it did not form ricochets, and only a few unlucky people who were directly hit fell into the grasp of death.

The elephant cannon also began to counterattack, and every recoil made the giant beast tremble, but as Ling Zhiqing's judgment, the cannonball shot out of ten ** did not know where to go, even if it hit the right direction, but the small-caliber elephant cannon could not reach the opponent in the fortress at all, and what was even more sad was that the loading after each shot was an extremely difficult thing.

Just as Ling Zhiqing, who was carefully inspecting with a telescope, shook his head, an elephant suddenly hissed and screamed, and then fell down with a bend of its forelimbs, and its huge body fell to the ground, causing great damage and chaos to the side that was caught off guard.

"I was hit directly by a shell." The resolution of the telescope in Ling Zhiqing's hand is not so high, but this can be judged without seeing clearly at all. "Ah, this is?" A terrifying scene appeared in Ling Zhiqing's sight, an elephant that went crazy for some reason waved its proboscis and twisted its body to throw away all the foreign objects on the emperor and the body, seeing that it was no longer possible to control this monster, the original escort team immediately turned around and turned into killing, and after a terrifying stab, the elephant that had exhausted its strength finally fell to the ground. "Before you hurt others, you hurt yourself."

Ling Zhiqing shook his head, and at this moment, the elephant team, which had finally broken through the range of the Ruan army's artillery, ushered in the baptism of arquebuses with a larger number of opponents. Another elephant writhed wildly, and then fell into the hands of its own people. Fortunately, Zheng Zhu's side was not blindly beaten, and as the distance approached, the elephant soldiers' counterattack finally caused damage to the opponent.

"It's completely disproportionate." Ling Zhiqing smashed his mouth and said that although relying on the courage of the elephant team, the Zheng lord's side had hand-to-hand combat with the Ruan lord's army defending the city for the first time, but such a price was too high, and with the number of elephants that the Zheng lord's army now had, it would not be able to move a few similar attacks. "But this is an opportunity, and it's time to join the team."

As if hearing Ling Zhiqing's words, almost a soldier from a battalion rushed out. At this moment, the Ruan army on the fortress had already fought with the elephant soldiers, so there was no time to stop the follow-up Zheng main army, so the first soldier went down the area marked by the Ruan main artillery army earlier with zero casualties.

The battle soon spread to the inside of the fortress, and battalion after battalion of Zheng Zhu's army was put into it, to which Ling Zhiqing commented: "Isn't this fueling? ”

Ling Zhiqing has not entered the martial arts academy, otherwise he would not have been eliminated, but he has not entered the martial arts, but there are many people among the regimental staff officers and sentry generals under his command who are from martial arts, and there are even young martial arts students from the boy battalion, so he understands Zheng Jun's operational code of "concentrating the forces that may be concentrated and decisively entering the battle" and enshrines it as a golden rule.

However, the one in front of him was obviously contrary to Zheng Jun's policy of concentrating forces to win in one fell swoop, but he would not remind Zheng Zhu of anything, after all, he had already stated in advance that he would not dictate the battle, and secondly, he did not know the situation inside the fortress, in case the terrain could only be put in one battalion at a time.

Since the battle in front never stopped, Ling Zhiqing, who only had the right to watch the battle, had to wait patiently for the battle situation to unfold. It may be because this fortress is relatively important, so Lord Ruan also invested great strength, the two sides fought for each other, fought for the day, and finally Lord Zheng relied on the number of soldiers, regardless of casualties, and finally took this fortress.

After receiving the report of the siege of the city ahead, Ling Zhiqing, who was already a little impatient, immediately walked towards the fortress, and as he walked, he asked: "Since it has changed hands this time, will the main mansion send troops to outflank the other forts next?" ”

It stands to reason that these belong to military aircraft, and it is not for the interpreter to answer, but the interpreter replied: "How is it possible, on the one hand, the Yugoslav army will definitely send troops to fight, and on the other hand, the Yugoslav army still has a line of defense in the rear."

After the interpretation of the interpreter, Ling Zhiqing realized that there was not only one Ruanzheng Great Wall, but two, and even three in key places. Moreover, except for the fortress area, which is convenient for marching, the rest of the city walls are built between mountains, which is not suitable for frontal attacks, and does not take advantage of a breakthrough to detour to other places, so Zheng Zhu's army can only peel the onion layer by layer.

In this way, a new question was born in Ling Zhiqing's mind: "Then why don't you attack from the sea." ”

Although Ling Zhiqing was born in the 6th Division, Zheng Jun was greatly shocked by the 6th battle several times, and in his opinion, the terrain of Annan was the most convenient tactic only to aid the sea to 6, but his question was destined to not be answered by the interpreter.

Ling Zhiqing, who knew that he was asking abruptly, didn't say much, just walked forward, and as he approached the fortress, the dead and wounded soldiers and elephant soldiers66 appeared in front of him one after another, and the further he went, the more thrilling the situation became.

Ling Zhiqing is also a person who leads the soldiers, and it is common for the dead and wounded to be killed, but the dead are gone, but the wounded soldiers seem to have no one to take care of them, so he couldn't help asking: "Why don't you send someone to clean up, these wounded soldiers can still be saved." ”

The interpreter didn't seem to have been on the battlefield, and at this time he couldn't suppress the desire to vomit, and he retched for a long time before responding: "Someone treated, why didn't anyone treat him, Lord Shangguo, don't you look over there?"

Over there? Which? Ling Zhiqing looked around, only to see some monks in plain robes carrying the dead bodies. Unlike Siam, Chenla, and Laos, Annam embraced Han Buddhism from Middle-earth, so it is rare for monks to be wrapped in yellow robes. The monks didn't look like healers, but there seemed to be no one else busy but them.

What's going on? Ling Zhiqing looked at the translator and waited for his explanation.

The interpreter rubbed his eyebrows and temples for a long time, but when he opened his eyes, he saw that the envoy from the northern country was full of puzzlement, so he explained word by word: "Lord Shangguo, don't you see that the monk is saving people? ”

After listening to the explanation, Ling Zhiqing realized that there was no special ambulance camp in Annan, and the injured soldiers could only obey the mandate of heaven, and once the battle started, the surrounding monasteries would send monks out to accumulate good deeds. On the one hand, the monks buried the corpses of the peasants and soldiers who could not return to their homes, and on the other hand, they would also help the injured soldiers by the way.

However, monks are only amateur doctors, so for the slightly injured, they may be able to receive a certain amount of treatment, but for the seriously injured, there is only one way to die. What's even more terrifying is that the lightly injured can only get a little salt water to wipe the wounds, and once they are purulent and inflamed, what awaits them is basically the result of death in a foreign land.

"This, so that the peasants can fight?" Ling Zhiqing understood why the soldiers' will to fight was so poor, so once they set out to fight the ten-minded, they would be killed. "Why doesn't the Lord take care of it?"

"Tube? These are lowly people," the interpreter said disdainfully. "It's not a scholar or a nobleman, how can the lord's mansion manage it".

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